Dovid Shlomo Novoseller

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Rabbi Dovid Shlomo Novoseller, a descendant of Rabbi Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev (Kedushat Levi), Rabbi Samuel Eidels (Maharsha) and Rabbi Yechezkel Landau (Noda Biyehuda), was born in Yarmolintsky on Aug. 19, 1877 and received semicha from Rabbi Moshe Noson HaLevi Rubinstein, Av Beth Din of Vinnitsa. R. Dovid Shlomo Novoseller acted as Av Beth Din of Felshtin from 1917-1928. During the horrific February 1919 pogrom Dovid Shlomo's wife and two daughter's were murdered and he was left for dead. After a miraculous recovery he remarried and in 1928 emigrated to Philadelphia, PA where he became Av Beth Din and founded Cong. Bnai Yehoshua and a free hostel for the Jewish homeless. He also served as President of the Vaad HaRabonim of Philadelphia and Vice-President of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis. He died in 1966.

[edit] References

• Rosenstein, Neil. The Unbroken Chain. Lakewood, NJ: CIS, 1990. p. 293
• Schneiderman, Harry, ed. and I.J. Carmin Karpman. Who's Who in World Jewry 1965: A Biographical Dictionary of Outstanding Jews. New York: McKay, 1965. p.708
• The Two Lives of Rabbi David Novoseller